Background: Positionality captures how the researcher is positioned, personally, socially,
and politically, in relation to the study's context. A researcher's positionality influences each …

Rigor is the aspirational quality academics apply to disciplinary standards of quality. Rigor's
particular role in engineering created conditions for its transfer and adaptation in the recently …

For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources
to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of …

The boundary work approach has been established as one of the main ways to study
controversies in science. However, it has been proposed that it does not meet the power …

Background A body of literature has arisen analyzing and legitimating the emerging field of
engineering education research (EER). Using concepts from the sociology of knowledge …

Engineering Education Research (EER) in the Chinese context has been developed
towards a region rather than a discipline with the intertwining of research and practice. The …

Background: In engineering education research, we have made great strides in both our
advanced qualitative research methodologies and the acceptance of qualitative research …

Abstract This response to Julie Martin and Chavone Garza's article published in Studies in
Engineering Education,“Centering the Marginalized Student's Voice Through …

Recent policy reports on responsible innovation emphasize the need to make ethics integral
to advanced engineering programs. Students, however, usually perceive ethics as a set of …

This article explores the historical context and ongoing discussions of the iron ring ritual, a
prominent tradition in Canadian engineering. We employ discourse analysis to describe and …